Slow streams from Time Capsule 4th Gen.

Just recently i acquired the aforementioned device, for the sole reason that i could have 3 devices in one.

Initially, it serves as my Gateway, since my friendly ISP allows me to have personal devices instead of theirs. Secondly, it acts as my WiFi AP, and Finally, it is a NAS device which i really needed a lot.

I have noticed a weird behaviour when i attach 100mbit Ethernet, meaning that the peer device connected to the TC cannot handle more then 100mbit. It seems WiFi streams are way stable compared to Ethernet streams, and i am puzzled. I am a network engineer, and our nature is to troubleshoot. Network transfers are fast in Ethernet, ofc even compared to WiFi, but streams are not.

I have loaded a few 1080p videos, with different encodings, but whatever i do, via Ethernet i have buffers every 5 seconds, via WiFi every minute.

I cannot jump to any conclusion except software mis-adaption, while the TC cannot deliver directly, its Switching power remains in tact, as i can stream 1080p from two different ports to each other without a problem.

I read Apple has standardised Samba protocol (how the hell did Microsoft do this????), i suspect NFS could have been way better in this matter, and wondering if such things are possible.

PS, 5GHz Network seems limited to region, as i cant find Europe, and i cant remember 802.11a/n having different deployment from the Chip perspective, but are rather limited to channel options, any solution for this as well, most of my devices cant see the 5ghz even though they absolutely support it.

PSS, anyone witnessed any performance increase in changing the built in drive?

Sorry lads for the bombardment, i've been a reader in this community for a while, and finally had a reason to be a member.

Two notebooks, one Mac, the other Windows, both have buffers via WiFi.

Also a Minix Neo X7, which is an Android Box, connected via Ethernet (and Wifi as a backup), the issue persists in all devices.

Can i make the TC favour NFS and not CMB? i havent tried any NFS command thus far but i did read somewhere that it is supported.

EDIT: wth, why does the Windows version of AirPort Utility have way more options to change compared to the one in OS X?????

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You can use either SMB or AFP. A Mac should connect with AFP which will probably yield better performance than Windows over SMB. You can have the same features as the Windows version by using 5.6.1 for Mac here.

That older full feature airport utility for mac (5.6) does not work in 10.9 or 10.10. Although I think I remember reading about work arounds. I have an old macpro at 10.8 that I run all these "obsolete" apps on, so dunno.

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